Washington Project for the Arts 2011 Experimental Media Series
Washington Project for the Arts is pleased to present the finalists and venues for the sixth Experimental Media Series. Juried by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, the featured works will present the leading edge in sound and video art. Two artists submitting the most compelling entries, as selected by the juror, and based on overall quality and innovation, will be awarded the Kraft Prize for New Media of $750 and the WPA Experimental Art Prize of $750 at The Phillips Collection on January 20, 2011.
About the Juror
Washington Project for the Arts is pleased to present the finalists and venues for the sixth Experimental Media Series. Juried by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, the featured works will present the leading edge in sound and video art. Two artists submitting the most compelling entries, as selected by the juror, and based on overall quality and innovation, will be awarded the Kraft Prize for New Media of $750 and the WPA Experimental Art Prize of $750 at The Phillips Collection on January 20, 2011.
About the Juror
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky is a composer, multimedia artist, and writer. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Artforum, and The Wire among other publications. Miller’s work as a media artist has appeared in a wide variety of contexts including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Venice Biennale for Architecture, Venice; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; and the Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York. Miller’s first collection of essays, entitled Rhythm Science, was published by MIT Press in 2004. His book Sound Unbound, an anthology of writings on electronic music and digital media, was also released by MIT Press. Miller’s latest collaborative project, Drums of Death, features Dave Lombardo of Slayer and Chuck D of Public Enemy, among others. He produced material on Yoko Ono’s recent album Yes, I’m a Witch. Miller is represented in Washington, DC by Irvine Contemporary.
The 2011 Experimental Media Series participating artists include:
Cedric Baker (Dale City, VA), Leslie Berns (University Park, MD), Lisa K. Blatt (San Francisco, CA), Virginia Colwell (Columbus, OH), Kathryn Cornelius (Washington, DC), Jym Davis (Waleska, GA), Werther Germondari (Rimini, Italy), Dee Hood (Ruskin, FL), Toby Kaufman-Buhler (Madison, WI), Hannah Naomi Kim (Washington, DC), Adam Krell,Rayya Newman, Ian Fay, Dawne Langford (Washington, DC), Peter Lee (Oakton, VA), Lemeh42 (Monterado, IT), Madame X (Los Angeles, CA), Kathryn Mockler, David Poolman (Toronto, ON, Canada), H. Paul Moon (Arlington, VA), Ranu Mukherjee (San Francisco, CA), Ocusonic aka Paul O Donoghue (Dublin, IE), Josh Ostraff (Minneapolis, MN), Jino Park , Cally Iden (Seoul, South Korea)(Philadelphia, PA), (Ottsville, PA), Kathyrn Ramey (Roslindale, MA), Stephen Riebel (Leipzig, DE), Jenny Schmid , Ali Momeni (Minneapolis, MN), Christian Straub, Leyla Rodriguez (Hamburg, DE), Collin Sundt (New York, NY), Andreas Templin (Berlin, DE), Elizabeth Tolson (Fairfax, VA), Mathieu Tremblay (Montreal, QC, Canada), Paul Turano (Roslindale, MA), Ultramax (State College, PA), Tina Willgren (Stockholm, SE), Kaiqin Zhang (Philadelphia, PA)
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